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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome - Movie Review |
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Befitting his status as a genre star, Boris Karloff earns top billing over leading man Ralph Byrd in RKO's final Dick Tracy caper. The former Frankenstein monster plays an escaped convict masterminding a daring bank robbery. A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', finds out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. To get in and out of the bank without being noticed, the gang uses the asphyxiating gas leaving everyone inside momentarily frozen in place. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome - Cast & Crew |
| Directed by: John Rawlins Written by: Chester Gould, Eric Taylor, Robert E Kent, Robertson White, William Graffis Starring: Anne Gwynne, Boris Karloff, Edward Ashley, June Clayworth, Lyle Latell, Ralph Byrd Crew: Elmo Williams, Frank Redman, Herman Schlom Copyright: Public Domain Duration: 65 mins Year: 1947 Tags: Boris Karloff, Crime, Dick Tracy |
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome Trivia - Did You Know?According to some reports, RKO wanted to release Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome as "Dick Tracy Meets Karloff" but that title was vetoed by Karloff himself. The legendary horror star apparently later accepted his own box-office value and a 1949 Universal comedy was released as Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff. Related FilmsDick Tracy's Dilemma | Dick Tracy Vs Cueball | Reefer Madness | Family Enforcer | The Terror | |
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